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aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 30-05-2025 11:20
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Good Morning #Canada
It's a golf day, playing 9 holes with my daughter in Toronto, so obviously, some golf content is appropriate for this morning's post. I'd like to introduce you to the regional director of Ontario for Golf Canada. Amaya Athill is a rare jewel, being both female and Black, and she is opening up the sport to a wider demographic. She is the founder of Black Women in golf, which provides lessons and encouragement to new golfers.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Golf
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/opinion-shireen-ahmed-black-women-golfers-may-27-1.7543822

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 31-05-2025 14:15
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LSZ ghostbusters in the quadratic gravity stage
The present letter considers the quantization method developed in [1]-[9], which postulates that, in several situations, negative norm or ghost states can be avoided in order to give positive probabilities. These authors also postulate a candidate for a path integral for those theories, following pioneer works initiated by Dirac [10]} and Pauli \[11]. However, taking into account the non standard oscillator algebra inherent to this method, in order to be sure that unitarity is not violated, one…

Testing my new LLM, "#CrokAI":
Q. Explain why the 9th full test of the Starship was a resounding success.
A. Before we can get to Mars, we must perfect the needed technology by colonizing a target that is closer to us. While some think that the Moon could serve this purpose, the Earth is a much more convenient (if challenging) target. In test #9, Starshit, sorry, Starship managed t…

@… I was so fed up with Windows 11 that last year I switched to Linux. I started with Zorin, which was good, but then tried Mint and have stayed with that for 9 or so months. I'm very happy.

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Algorithmic Collusion under Observed Demand Shocks
The growing reliance on AI-driven pricing algorithms has raised antitrust concerns, particularly that third-party use of nonpublic competitor data may facilitate information sharing and undermine market competition. This paper examines a setting in which firms receive demand information from a common third party and incorporate it into their pricing algorithms. Specifically, I analyze the pricing behavior of Q-learning agents when demand shocks are observable. The simulation results show that a…

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 30-05-2025 22:20
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Articulatory Feature Prediction from Surface EMG during Speech Production
We present a model for predicting articulatory features from surface electromyography (EMG) signals during speech production. The proposed model integrates convolutional layers and a Transformer block, followed by separate predictors for articulatory features. Our approach achieves a high prediction correlation of approximately 0.9 for most articulatory features. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these predicted articulatory features can be decoded into intelligible speech waveforms. To our know…

Der Kontinent des Krieges https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9952

Big thrill today, saw two humpbacks breaching by Bowen Island, about here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ly9AteWe1JHN7SyX6
Wonderful creatures and so obviously having fun.

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 30-05-2025 10:20
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Woocomerce is used by million of people. Look for the latest 9.8 vulnerability: #wordpress

GitHub - d0n601/CVE-2025-5058: eMagicOne Store Manager for WooCommerce <= 1.2.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via set_image Task
eMagicOne Store Manager for WooCommerce <= 1.2.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via set_image Task - d0n601/CVE-2025-5058

On the irrationality of certain $p$-adic zeta values
Li Lai, Cezar Lupu, Johannes Sprang
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On the irrationality of certain $p$-adic zeta values
A famous theorem of Zudilin states that at least one of the Riemann zeta values $ζ(5), ζ(7), ζ(9), ζ(11)$ is irrational. In this paper, we establish the $p$-adic analogue of Zudilin's theorem. As a weaker form of our result, it is proved that for any prime number $p \geqslant 5$ there exists an odd integer $i$ in the interval $[3,p+p/\log p+5]$ such that the $p$-adic zeta value $ζ_p(i)$ is irrational.

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"Elinkeinoelämän keskusliiton johtaja Oksala kehuu Petteri Orpon hallitusta. EK on saavuttanut monia pitkäaikaisia tavoitteitaan."
Ennen siirtymistään elinkeinoelämän palvelukseen Oksala teki pitkän uran kokoomuksen taustavaikuttajana.
Orvon hallitukselle EK johtaja antaa
arvosanan 9-. Kuka yllättyi 🤑
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Elinkeino­elämä on saanut jo lähes kaiken haluamansa – Nyt Ilkka Oksala kertoo, mitä EK hamuaa seuraavaksi
Petteri Orpon hallitus on paras sitten Paavo Lipposen ensimmäisen hallituksen, kehuu 60 vuotta täyttänyt EK-johtaja.

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The AI Penalization Effect: People Reduce Compensation for Workers Who Use AI
We investigate whether and why people might adjust compensation for workers who use AI tools. Across 11 studies (N = 3,846), participants consistently lowered compensation for AI-assisted workers compared to those who were unassisted. This "AI Penalization" effect was robust across (1) different types of work (e.g., specific tasks or general work scenarios) and worker statuses (e.g., full-time, part-time, or freelance), (2) different forms of compensation (e.g., required payments or optional bo…

Prince of Prussia: completed!
No, I've not got to the end of Prince of Persia as yet - I know what I have to do to complete level 9, but I keep making stupid mistakes right at the end - but this is a small puzzle-type platformer which riffs on Prince of Persia but adds in Nazi guards and a shiv. The movement, graphical background, and obstacles are derived from the original Persia game, although there are no buttons or moving gates; instead the puzzle is working out…

Things to do during a hiatus
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"A IA vai melhorar o mundo"
IA da Uber: "você vai aguardar 9 minutos ou prefere escolher o pacote prioridade?"

Breakfast maneuvers
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о происходящем
Не будет никакого перемирия.
Это война будет идти до конца.
Или Украина при поддержке союзников разгромит россию или Россия разгромит и захватит значительную часть Европы.
Вопрос стоит так и не иначе.
Хватит иллюзий.
В целях улучшения демографии «Камасутру» внесут в список обязательной литературы для 8-9 классов
Я всё же надеюсь, что украинская крылатая paкета настигнет военного преступника Путина раньше, чем Гаагский суд.
Будущий канцле…

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld